this happened wednesday near west frankfurt drive and arctic avenue in rockville. a customer armed with a knife forced the driver to walk to a field near parkland middle school where he attacked her. police arrested 27-year-old juan rodriguez. he was arrested several hours after the attack. >>> a serious car accident sent three teenagers to the hospital in prince george's county. it was about 3:00 this afternoon on lord landing road in upper marlboro. the car ended up between a fence and tree and took crews half an hour to pull the teenagers from that car. one of them is in critical condition. >>> the beltway in virginia will be shut down to fix an overhead sign that was hit by a truck. itappened about 1:30 this afternoon on 495 near route 123 not far from tysons corner. vdot will alternate lane closur throughout this evening and expect it to be fixed by 7:00 tomorrow morning. >>> it's been a while since it felt this chilly in our area. in just 24 hours we will go from 70s to the 30s. veronica, is this going to stick around for long? >> it's going to stick around a

what really got my attention was that the rest of the top five were not paris, frankfurt or boston, chicagon right behind the u.s. and uk financial capitals. and singapore and tokyo followed in quick succession. rounding out the asian cities in the top ten, shenzhen. ever heard of shenzhen? it's a still of more than 10 million people in the southeast of china. you ought to get familiar with it. it has its own stock exchange, ranks first out of all the global financial centers for its reputation. in fact, 6 of the top 10 city force reputation are in asia. and new york and london are towards the end of that grouping. understandably so after all the blame heaped on them for the current financial crisis. incredibly, when this study was first conducted just three years ago, shenzhen wasn't even one of the 46 cities on the list. that's how fast some places are moving up to challenge the dominance of western cities. now, of course, shenzhen is a major player. we will all need to learn more about city like it in 291st century. so book your ticket to shenzhen right away. we'll be right back. >>> now

but how do you compete with new york, hong kong, shanghai, frankfurt in an environment where the money's tight? >> well, we feel that we compete very well. clearly the fiscal environment is important. but it is not the only element. what i think london provides is a very deep pool of capital, a very deep pool of expertise, which is what companies who come to list here are seeking. at the end of the day it's liquidity and it's expertise in terms of their sector of operation. london remains extremely competitive in that regard. and if one looks for a minute at the pipeline of not only european but international ipos scheduled to list in london in the next five to six months, it is a very good pipeline indeed. we're very pleased about it. >> what does the pipeline look like? what sectors are you expecting to be most active in terms of coming to market? >> as you would expect, of course, energy, resources, mining, extractive sectors continue to be very, very attractive and focus investors' attention. we continue to be extremely attractive generally speaking to emerging market companies. asia

european tour, i'm going to have to say patricia and carolina are both with us here in london from frankfurt and zurich respectively. great to see you. what's happening with the german market while you're here in london? >> still keeping on eye, very, very long eye to germany. trading down around 0.4%. that is it. however, if you look at the volumes, they are actually quite low. so most of the people are really not participating in the move. there's a lot of insecurity. we had a great rally so far in march. so people really want to ascertain whether this is going to continue for the rest of the month, as heavy or weak in terms of macro economic data coming through, some of the sentiment data, business sentiment data also to hit the wires over the next few days. in terms of how the health care bill really impacts today, our health care stocks in germany doing really well. i mean, henkel for example, a chemical stock, however more or less sometimes also labeled within that sector up 0.9%. trading higher on the back of the u.s. bill. merck, at least in the green territory. only on the losing si

we met him at frankfurt book fair where we were introducing the launching of the chinese edition of china's megatrends. that was in september and october. it was published in china in september and this last week published in the u.s.. you as publishers lagging a little behind even though they didn't have to translate it but that is another story. we are going to talk not for very long, 15 or 20 minutes to kind of frame where we are coming from because we want to have a conversation with you. we want to talk about what your questions are. how many of you have been to

frankfurt was kind of a clash between china and germany and the question in where china stands and what china stands for. the same emotions we sometimes face here. when we were in china, of course the chinese asked us, what can we do to make our picture the picture the world has of us better? it is quite a bit of communication question. how does china communicate what it is banned how does the world try to understand what china really is? we used an example because it is somehow the world would be a neighborhood into which a new neighbor has moved. and this family has not gotten too much attention for quite a while and all of a sudden this family starts improving its house and gets the attention of the other neighbors and of course with anything new in a certain environment, what starts first is gossip. and gossip is more interesting if is negative gossip. so we shouldn't be astonished if what we hear about china is mostly negative. not everything is gossip. some is quite justified but this should be balanced and we as the established neighbor as we call the west. we should try to get a

in london, paris and frankfurt, greece still a big issue with the big summit under way. and guy johnson has all you need to know in london. good morning. >> thank you very much, indeed, erin. good morning. we're waiting for news on greece. they're beginning to begin now in advance of the summit that is going to take place over the next few days between the european leaders. today kind of seems to be a risk on trade for that one. we're still waiting, still watching. greek banks are up very, very nicely today. there is some sense maybe we'll get a deal done. the germans, though, still seem to be incredibly intenseient on this story. we'll show you where we are. we're off our highs, to give you a lie of the land. we're up by around half of 1%. the euro is trading still around this, 135 level. seems to be a key line in the sand for the market. we broke it a little earlier. we popped it up a little bit off our lows but the euro is still down by .3. the other story i want to make you aware of today, one of the world's biggest carmakers, volkswagen is showing values of around 4